Bottle-washer.



C. HAMANN.

BOTTLE WASHER.

' APPLICATION FILED AUG.2I,'I9I4. 1,269,077. Patented June 11, 1918.

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BOTTLE WASHER.

APPLICATION man Auazl, 1914.

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C. HAMANN.

BOTTLE WASHER.

APPLICATION man Aue.2l 1914.

Patented J une 11, 1918.

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CHARLES HAMANN, F PORT CHESTER, NEW YORK.

BOTTLE-WASHER.

` Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 11, 1918. I

Application filed August 21, 1914. Serial No. 857,882.

, which I at present deem preferable.

For a detailed description of the present form of my invention, reference may be had to the following specification and'accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof, in which-- Y Figure l is a plan and Fig. 2 is a front elevation partly insection of the upper portion of my machine,

Fig. 3 is a section thereof,

Figs. 4 and 5 show details.

Fig. 6 is a plan view illustrating the invention.

One feature of my invention relates to a device for adjusting the position of the bottle-turning belt with respect to the size of the bottle that is to be washed without at the saine time changing the' belt tension, while the belt-tension can be adjusted without altering the relation of the beltv to the line of the bottles. I have also devised a new means of securing the bottle spindles to the carrier wheel and havejprovided a special and separate brush for Ywashing the necks of the bottles externally. -Other vfeatures of invention will be specified inthe claims. i

Referring to Fig. 3 of the drawings, A represents the horizontal base of my machine in the center ofv which is secured a conical stud B on which rotates the carrierwheel C. This wheel has a hollow rim in which at intervals are barriers C1 (see at the right of Fig. l) that limit the flow of water in the hollow rim. The spokes of the carrier-wheel are hollow and serve to connect the interior of the hollow rim with a water space C2 in the hub C3 of the wheel. f The stud vB on which the wheel-hub C3 is journaled is shown in detail in Fig. 5, being hollow and supplied with water under pressure by means of the pipe B1. On the stud B are two holes b, b which register with the water- 'space C2 in the hub C3. By this means water is delivered into the hollow kwheel-rim and passes thence upward into the bottle spindles from which it shoots into the inside of the:

several` bottles on the respective spindles.

One of the bottle spindles is shown at I, the

details thereof being shown in Fig. 4. The 1 lower end of each spindle terminates in a plug 2 fitting snugly'in a hole through the spindle-seat onthe rim ofthe carrier-wheel.

A seating flange i projects .horizontally from the spindle and rests on a rubber washervl3 i on the spindle-seat of the carrier-wheel. A spring-holder K loosely surrounds the spindle just above the seating-flange z', and bears thereupon, being bent down along the a bearing-bend which rests on the under side of the wheel-rim directly opposite and in line with the spindle. By this means it is a simple matter to change the spindles for outside of the wheel-rim, and terminating in:y

bottles of different sizes, since it is only ,y necessary to lift the spindle until its plugend clears the hole in the wheel-rim, the

spring-holder K yielding suihciently for that purpose, and then remove the spindle `together with the spring-holder lfrom the rim.'l i

The carrier-wheel is rotated by a gear-wheel clon the hub C3, with which meshes a pinion c2 on a jack-'shaft driven by sprocket chain c3 from a vertical shaft El in the standard D.

ing from the pulley-shaft E. f

shaft F1 `mounted in brackets ,projecting froin the stud B at the bottom and from v The vertical shaft E1 is driven by bevel gear-"1.

standard 'D' atthe topof shaft F1.. `The 1 journal boxes for the shaft slide in slotsin their respective `brackets and are adjusted in position lby screws. The brushfwheel-has I a smooth-faced rim on which are bolted'vertical wooden-backbrushes and it'is rotated by a rsprocket-chain connection from the shaft yEl aforesaid. The bottles, which .are

supported as shown by the spindles Iofthe carrieravheel, pass somewhat tangentially along the face ofthe brush-wheel as clearly.,V

appears in Fig., 1 and are thoroughly scrubbed by the brushes which rotate kin the opposite direction to the bottles. vAtthe same time the bottles pass under the stationary brushes G, G by which the'bottoms; f

of the bottles are scrubbed. As each bottle approaches the scrubbing point, it' is automatically lifted up on its spindle bymeans Each lifter I1r is mounted on a ,ver-V caused to rotate.

means the swinging v'Will bring the ipul tance carrying the bottle with it. The result is that the scrub-fin on the spindle "I within the bottle rubs against the inside of the neck of the bottle to clean it. Ase'ach lifter rides off the plate I2, it drops downto Lits 'normal level, and thescrub-n which :is

of rubber bends over at its tip to allowthe bottle to also descend to its normal position.

I havemoreov'erprovided al1-outside neck- "brush H (see Fig. y2) which is upheld byfa shank L that Vhooks over one of a series of hooks'Ll on thejstandard D. -From the back of the 'brush II Vprojects, at a right-angle .'thereto,a bar h3 on which is a. weight 7a2 that can slide 'in or out on the bar h3, to-adjust the lpressure which vit-eXerts on the brush II to hold `the Ibrush against the neck of the bottle.

disturbing its 'tension adjustment, or, conversely, can'havelitsftension adjusted without disturbing its relatioirto the bottles and -t`o the'brush-'wheeL This'belt'Ois extended y'betweenthe'pulleys Ol,'O2, which are shown yrespectively Yat the `left vand right lof Fig. '1

and 'at the lri'glit 4and left of F ig. '2. The

:pulley Ol is `fast on shaft Ll which is jourl'naled'inthebearingsm, vmwhich are carried respectively by thetop and `bottomarms ml,

of a C-shaped yoke M. The arms ml, ml are curved inwardly (with respect to the iplan'eofthe upright portion of lyoke M) vtoward the carrier-wheel O, as appears in the plan View in Figs. 1 and 6. The yoke M is Vitself pivoted, at top and bottom, in the clevis jaws jl, jl, which'are carried on the 'ends of bracket arms jl, jl, being odset thereefrom and the bracket-'arms jl, jl` are carried inturn by 'anupright shaft Jl which is journaled kin lugs on the standard D. By this of the bracket-arms jl, jl ey Ol, together with the yokeMon which the'pulley Ol is j ournaled,

I"n'earer to or farther fromthe carrier-"wheel C and tthe bottles thereon. The position of lthebracketarms jl, `jl is fixed by theslotted VlinkRl secured toone'arm of the bracket P on the standard D. In Fig. 1, for example,

`thepulley Ol and the belt O thereon are so adjusted that the belt will just bear tangentially onthe bottle S; but it may be ad- Ijust'edin'farther to also bear on the acent bottleslSl on Veither side of bottle S. On the "other h'andjit maybe adjusted out to take in biottlesof-a larger size. The'tension ofthe beltO is adj usted by tl'ieturning of the lyoke M in th'ejaws jl, jl, the adjusting screw ma 4beii'rg provided for that purpose between the curved arm ml and the bracket arm jl. By

turning this screw thepulley Ol may be adjusted in or out with respect to the bracket i arm. rIhe pulley O2 is similarly fixed on a "shaft L2, but that shaft is not journaled in `a slottedilink It?, but it is not adjustable for the purposes ofbelt tension. That belt-tension is adjusted by means ofpulley Ol alone.

The arrangement thus described provides for separate adjustment of the position and of the tension of the belt O. The, pulley O2 is driven by means of the sprocket chain O3,

which is the same chain that drives they brush-wheel shaft Fl.

What I claim as new and desire to secure Lby vLetters Patent is: y

l. In a bottle washer, a bottle carrier, Va belt for rotating bottles supported by said carrier, pulleys for operating said belt, bracket arms, means carriedby saidbracket arms for adjustably supporting one of said pulleys, means for adjusting said bracket arms toward andfrom the carrier, andineans for supporting the other pulley.

2. In a bottle washer, a bottle carrier, a belt for rotating bottles supported by said carrier, `pulleys for operating said belt, bracket arms, means carried by said bracket arms for adjustably supporting one of said pulleys, means for adjusting said bracket arms toward and from the carrier,means Ifor supporting the other pulley, and means Afor adjusting the last mentioned pulley relative to the carrier. l

3. Inra bottle washer, a bottle carrier, a belt for rotating Ibottles 'supported by said carrier, pulleys for voperating said belt, bracket arms, an adjustable support v'carried 4by said arms and provided with means for supporting one of-said pulleys, means for adjusting saidsupportV to` tighten the belt,

means for adjusting said bracket arms toward andfrom said carrier, and means for supporting the other pulley.

4;. In a bottle washer,'a vbottle carrier, a belt for rotating bottles supported byy said carrier, pulleys for operating said belt, bracket arms, a yokepivotally supported by Vsaid arms and provided 'with bearings for one of said pulleys,^an 'adjustingscrew for regulating theV position. of said yoke, means for adjusting said bracket arms toward and from said carrier, and'means yfor supporting the other'pulley.

5. In a bottle-washer, the Vcombination with va rotating bottle-carrier, of a rotating `brush,means for pressing the bottles against the'brush androtating them in contact therewith,a separate brush located adjacentto the neck of the bottle, a projection on the brush for suspending it, and a Weight for pressing the brush against the neck of the bottle.

6. In a bottle-washer, the combination With a rotating carrier-wheel and bottlespindles thereon, of a rotating brush, a

.standard located adjacent to the said carrier-Wheel and brush, movable bracket arms mounted on said standard, pulleys mounted in said bracket arms, one of the pulleys being adjustable thereon, means for fixing the position of said bracket-arms with respect to the bottles, meansfor fixing the position CHARLES HAMANN.

Witnesses:

L. T. SHAW ERISMAN, EDWARD V. ODONNELL.

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